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Summary:
Larry Cohen wrote the screenplay to this updating of Mickey Spillane's notorious 1947 novel. Cohen was originally engaged to direct the film as well but was pulled from the director's chair after a week's worth of shooting because he had already run up the budget by 100,000; he was replaced by television director Richard T. Heffron. In this 1982 I, the Jury, Mike Hamme... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Armand Assante - (Mike Hammer)
Barbara Carrera - (Charlotte Bennett)
Laurene Landon - (Velda)
Alan King - (Charles Kalecki)
Geoffrey Lewis - (Joe Butler)
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Review:
This attempt to update Mickey Spillane's hard-nosed style of detective fiction for the 1980's tries hard but still manages to fall short. Larry Cohen's script reworks Spillane's source novel extensively to give it some unusual, politically subversive themes but the film feels oddly lifeless in its pacing and structure. The major reason for... Continue >>
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